The following comparison of tables for the past nine years shows the prices of the various products of Pennsylvania : Wool, medium, washed, Wool, long, unwashed, Fa:m land. improved, value per acre, Farm land, value per acre, average, .18 22 .16 .19 .17 medium, un 17 19 .20 .26 .15 .19 .03 .04 05 .06 .06 .061 $0.78 $0.95 $0.96, $1.10 .65 .53 .65 .05 49.00 56.50 57.00 55.00 60.00 60.00 60.00 60.00 60.00 60.00 33.00 39.00 .70 .50 .80 .70 3-5-1912 The following gives the acreage, 'amount produced and value of cereals, potatoes and hay grown in Pennsylvania; also the number and valure of the different Farm Animals and Pennsylvania's rank among the different states of the Union, for the various products enumerated in the year 1911. CEREALS, HAY AND FARM PRODUCTS CONCLUSION The Report of 1912 develops the fact that at Regular Institutes, Movable Institute Schools and Special Institutes there was an attendance of 191,213. When we come to consider that during the winter season many parts of the State was visited with snow storms and unprecedented cold weather, together with an epidemic of measles and smallpox in ten of the different counties, this statement shows the enormous interest taken in this work, surpassing any previous year. All this work has been accomplished at an expenditure of only $22,500, and were it not for the disinterested work and public spirit of men living in communities where institutes are held, who devote many days in preparing for the institutes, this report would have a different showing. There is a growing demand for more and better instructors; also for the Movable Institute School work, which enters more minutely into modified class instruction than ever before in the history of the work. Furthermore, I have been thoroughly convinced, that in order to enforce and develop instruction given at these meetings, it is of first importance that we should be equipped with a fund of not less than $40,000 annually, for the purpose of organizing a corp of Farm Advisers whose duty it shall be to visit the farms of the State and there join with the farmers in demonstrating the most approved methods to be pursued in all the various lines of farm operations carried on within our borders. Looking to this end, at our Annual Meeting held at Towanda, a resolution was adopted asking the coming Legislature to make such an appropriation. Further resolutions were adopted at the institutes of the past year endorsing that resolution, and we have every assurance that the Legislature will, in its wisdom, provide for this most reasonable request. I can think of no other movement that would more rapidly tend to the development of better agriculture in Pennsylvania. Very respectfully, A. L. MARTIN, Director of Farmers' Institutes. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY Harrisburg, Pa., January 1, 1913. Hon. N. B. Critchfield, Secretary of Agriculture: Dear Sir:-I have he honor to submit herewith the Annual Report of the Bureau of Economic Zoology, of the Department of Agriculture, for the year of 1912. The work of this Bureau has been prosecuted with vigor and success, as shown by the increasing interest taken by our citizens in its subjects. The correspondence has steadily increased, and requests for information pertaining to the subjects of this Bureau are continuing unabated. We are gratified that our citizens realize that they can obtain service from this office and come to us for it, thus aiding in extending its usefulness. Within the last year approximately six thousand letters were written and copied in this office, most of which were in reply to inquiries or communications by correspondents. PUBLICATION The publication of our Bi-Monthly Bulletin continued regularly. The five numbers issued during 1912 contained treatises on the following subjects: January, 1912. Horticulture, Model Orchard Reports, Nursery Inspection Report. March, 1912. How to Avoid Culls, Grafting and Budding, Spraying Apparatus. May, 1912. Bee-Keeping. July and September, 1912. Pests of Field, Garden and Truck Crops. November, 1912. Pests of Trees, Index to Volume II. About thirty thousand of each of these Bi-Monthy Bulletins have been printed and disseminated. The publication of the Weekly Press Letter continued throughout the year. This is our best means of reaching the public directly and quickly. The newspapers in this State, and the agricultural press reaching this State, and others have made good use of these weekly News Letters, which we have been very careful to make timely, accurate and as brief as possible in consistency with proper treatment of the subjects discussed. Most of the newspapers of the State have used them more or less regularly, some having established regular departments each week, using all of our Weekly Press Letter material. NURSERY INSPECTION An important part of the service of this office has been the Nursery Inspection work for the detection of pests in nurseries and to prevent their dissemination over the State. This has been done biennially, commencing in August, and again in January. We have found that the January inspection is quite needful, as certain pests may be disseminated and reach nursery stock after the August inspection, and certain pests are to be more readily found when trees are dormant than when in leaf. We have published, in detail, on the Nursery Inspection work in Pennsylvania, in our Bi-Monthly Bulletin for January, 1912, in which are published by counties the names and addresses of all of the nurserymen in Pennsylvania, together with the number of acres and the certificate number of each respective nurseryman. These bulletins are free of charge upon application to the Department of Agriculture or the Bureau of Zoology, and, conse quently, it is not necessary to go to the expense of repeating the same information in this Annual Report. Our State Law requires that tree dealers of Pennsylvania shall have certificates issued by this Department authorizing them to sell trees in this State, after the source of the same is investigated and found to be proper. In the January Bulletin we published a list of the names and addresses of certified Tree Dealers in Pennsylvania, given alphabetically by counties. The Nursery Inspection work of Pennsylvania requires that all nursery stock of kinds liable to infestation by San Josè scale, that is shipped into Pennsylvania, bear certificates of fumigation, and the nurserymen of other states were given an opportunity to file affidavits that they fumigate their nursery stock in accordance with our legal requirement, before shipping into this State. The list of nurserymen living in other states who filed such affidavits of fumigation will be published in an early issue of our Bi-Monthly Bulletin, giving their names and addresses under their respective states arranged alphabetically, and hence will be obtainable free of charge by the public. For economy it is not duplicated in this Report. During the year 1912 considerable attention was given to the inspection of imported plants and plant products, in accordance with a Federal requirement, and in co-operation with the Federal Government. No less than six thousand five hundred and seventyseven packages, containing nearly two million plants were inspected as Imported Nursery Stock, and over one thousand packages containing about five hundred thousand plants were inspected as Imported Field-grown Florists' Plants. The public can scarcely realize what a tremendous service this office is rendering in the inspection of over seven and one-half thousand packages containing nearly two and one-half million plants. We are gratified to know that this work has been done so carefully as to locate the eggs of destructive insects, like the Gipsy moth, and the larvae of very serious pests, like the Brown-tail moth, upon nursery stock coming into this State, and with the most careful inquiry and inspection throughout the State we can not find one case of such pests having escaped the vigilance of our inspectors of imported nursery stock, and having been disseminated in this State. Further details on this topic will be published soon in our Bi-Monthly Bulletin. APIARY INSPECTION The Apiary Inspection in Pennsylvania was undertaken by voluntary Apiary Inspectors, who inspected nearly two thousand colonies of bees in one hundred and fifty-seven apiaries, and found many of |